There are lots of people that are concerned about cleaning their home, hands and other surfaces. There has never been a time that cleaning supplies have been in such high demand. The shelves are being raked over and it has been hard to locate the things that you normally would use to clean and care for your house. With the threat of virus, bacteria and germs running all over the place including on your own body more and more people are wondering about ways to clean and what that means. One of the things that many people want to make sure they know more about is the difference between cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting. They are in fact all different and some of them are better to use then others. All of them are doing something to help reduce the contact that you might have with a germ that you want to avoid. You want to make sure you know what they each do and why you want to use certain cleaning methods. Baker Sandoval Cleaning outlines what the difference is between cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting.

Purpose of Cleaning

When it comes to what most people are doing in their home and their businesses cleaning is the main method. This is a great starting point to try and protect your family and others from getting in contact with germs that might make them sick. When you are cleaning you are using some sort of soap based cleaner that you use to wipe off counters, knobs, doors, switches and bathrooms. The cleaning is taking some of the germs and removing them from the surfaces that you are cleaning. The problem is that cleaning is not known to actually kill any of the germs that you might be worried about. This is a good start and will leave the surfaces looking better but it can still leave behind the germs that you want to make sure are gone.

Sanitizing Procedures

When it comes to sanitizing it has become the main topic of most conversations. Everyone wants to know where to find a bottle of sanitizing wipes or hand sanitizer. This is also a good way to keep bacteria, viruses and germs off your surfaces and off your body. The sanitizer is applied to a surface and or your hands and in a short amount of time can kill many of the germs that you are worried about. The problem is that the germs are not being removed and still remain but are essentially killed. That is why when you use sanitizer on your hands they don’t actually feel clean. It is a way to simply kill the germs.

Disinfection Process

Now if you want to make sure you have the best chance at removing and killing the germs that are worrisome then disinfecting is the way to go. This means that you are killing the germs that are on the surface and the main difference is that there is a wider range of germs that are affected when you do this. The amount of germs that are left are minimal and your risk of exposure is at its lowest.

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